Kitsune's Disciple: Beast Summoner Naruto
Chapter 10
AN: New chapter yay. And could you all please review I don't care if its just saying "hi liked the chp' or what but it lets me know that people are actually reading and likeing my story. Don't worry im not going to stop writing or anything I just need reassurance that you all like it. Also because of my work schedule I will most likely be posting chapters every two weeks unless I just get hit with a great scene I hope that isn't to long of a wait.
Normally gennin spend most of their time doing D ranked mission in the village, these missions have three purposes to teach team work and get to know each other, help the community, and provide a source of income for the town and team. But to Kakashi time his students could spend doing D ranks was time that could be better spent training to get stronger and work on their tactics. This was why he had his three gennin standing in the middle of the field practicing chakra control by making leaves float in the air like they had for the past month.
"Why isn't Kakashi sensei here yet?" asked Sakura
"He said something about having to go pick up something this morning" said Naruto floating three leaves in his hand, beside him Sauske was floating four leaves while Sakura had 5 floating on a cushion of chakra.
"He is probably off buying one of your grandfather's perverted books." said Sauske
"Nah the new one doesn't come out till next month." Said Naruto, getting a harsh look from Sakura he hurriedly added. "Hey I don't read them the only reason I know is because Kakashi and Jiraiya were talking about it the other night."
About an hour later Kakashi came walking into the field holding a couple of bags and two long boxes.
"I have presents" said Kakashi motioning the team over, handing out one of the bags to each of his students; each bag had three outfits with the same design in them made special for each student and resembled ANBU attire. They all had a long pair of dark pants with shin and thigh guards, a silver vest with the sleeves cut off above the shoulders and black long sleeved shirt under it, black armguards with gloves, and a pair of sandals.
Each also got a cloak that was colored differently and had a different design from the others, Sauske's was a dark blue with the a large brown hawk, Sakura's was light pink and had a giant cherry tree in the middle with petals all around it, while Naruto had on an orange cloak with dark flames on the bottom above hose flames was a large yellow fox with nine tails.
Next Kakashi handed each of his students a box, Naruto and Sauske both received a long slim box while the one Sakura received was a small square box. Inside each of the boxes was a new weapon, for Naruto there were two reverse grip tantos the same ones he had been looking at when they went to the ninja shop, Sauske got a katana, Sakura got a pair of gloves with metal plates, on anyone else it would just be a piece of clothing but for Sakura and Tsunade they were weapons as deadly as the boy's swords.
"Wow thank you uncle Kakashi sensei." said Naruto
"Yeah think you sensei." repeated Sauske and Sakura giving their teacher a little half bow.
"I think it's time that you all start getting familure with weapons for your close range work which is something we need to work on since you all seem to want to rely on your jutsu, but the fighting style I'll be teaching is made to use your body, weapon, and jutsus at the same time weather you're in close or mid-range fights that's why these weapons and armor are special." Said Kakashi
"How so?" asked Naruto
"Do any of you know Asuma?" question the copy cat
"Asuma Sarutobi? Yeah he's the teacher of Shikamaru's team isn't he." said Sauske
"Correct now do you guys know what's special about his fighting style?"
"He uses chakra infused weapons right?" asked Sakura who remembered Ino talking about Asuma using them one time.
"That's right his daggers are composed of a special metal that can have chakra infused into it. Depending of the chakra element the weapon can be used for different attacks, or take on different properties."
"Like what?" questioned Sakura
"Well if a blade has wind infused it gets much sharper, or if a club had earth it would be heaver and hit harder."
"What about those clothes?" asked Naruto "They look cool are they going to help us in any way?"
"nahh those are just normal clothes I thought you all would look cool in." after that everyone face faulted. "I'm joking they have special storage, gravity and chakra seals to help you train."
"What do they do?" questioned Sakura once again always the scholarly one.
"Ohh I know I know" shouted Naruto "grandpa Jiraiya taught me, the storage seals are probably like the ones in the scrolls. The chakra and gravity seals on the other hand are special, usually the seals would be placed as traps on the ground to either cut off someone's chakra or increase their weight to where they can't move."
"Correct" said Kakashi "which is why we're using them, the gravity one is pretty self-explanatory while you use it you will build up muscle mass being stronger and faster when they are off, in fact it's what my rival Guy and his student Lee use. The chakra seals on the other hand are different, they will suck off and store a certain amount of chakra so your body will have to make more thus increasing your total amount, it will also limit how much you can access working on your control."
"Seals are cool." said Sauske
"Yeah they are kid." said Jiraiya showing up in a puff of smoke
"ahh Lord Jiraiya your finally here to help give the lesson." said Kakashi
"Yes I had to stop by the hokages office and give a report on what my spy network had picked up. Apparently there is some criminal organization growing out of grass country trying to spread its self into the land of waves, and here in the land of fire."
"Sounds serious" said Kakashi
"Yepp but not something for your team to worry about yet." said Jiraiya planting a big smile on his face "So has Kakashi already went over your presents?"
"Yeah but what are you going to teach us?" asked Naruto
"I'm going to help you guys tap into your elemental chakras, though the attacks you have been using make use of the elements they are weak compared to what they will be when you learn how to mold your chakra to fit different elements. Also when you master your element and get proficient at manipulation you can create your own unique attack." Said Jiraiya
"I don't get it what do you mean;" asked Naruto
"Here I'll show you" said Jiraiya "this is just the regular attack."
Drawing up a bit of chakra Jiraiya shouted out "Fire Release: Grand Fireball Jutsu" and sent the large ball of flame towards a bolder. The flames hit the bolder and washed over it burning off the moss and grass around it but not much else.
"Now watch what I do when I charge my chakra with fire element energy." going through the motions again Jiraiya shouted out the same attack and sent the fireball careening down range. But this time when the fireball washed over the bolder instead of scorching the rock it melted the front of it. "See the difference, It's hard at first but once you master it its worth every drop of sweat, in fact to be a jonin you have to have mastered two of your elemental affinity's."
"How do we know what our elements are?" asked Sauske
"Didn't they do the test in school? No of course not cause there a bunch of idiots. What you do is we get a piece of special chakra paper and send your chakra into it. If it gets soggy you have water, if it crumbles then earth, burns equals fire, crinkles is lighting, and if its cut you have air. And depending on how strong your affinity is you may have two of the aforementioned things happen to the same piece of paper." said Jiraiya
"Where do we get this paper?" asked Sauske
"Normally in the ninja shops, but today I brought some with me." Said the toad sage taking three pieces of paper out of his pocket and handing them to each of the students. "Naruto you have already done this so I'm going to use you as an example, I want you to channel a little chakra into the paper. Doing so the paper in Naruto's had started to get sliced up and then soggy.
"So Naruto you have wind and water affinity, now I want you to try pinkie." said Kakashi pointing towards Sakura.
Sakura stared at the piece of paper in her hand and started to channel chakra into it, at first nothing happened then the paper started to crumble in her hand.
"I guess I've got earth." said Sakura
Seeing that it was his turn Sauske started to pour in chakra until the paper started to crinkle then burst into flames, momentarily surprised at the fire he threw the paper away.
"So Sauske has fire and lighting, looks like you have all the elements represented in your team Kakashi." Said Jiraiya "Now why don't you guys go get changed real quick and we will start the lessons."
For the next two months Kakashi and Jiraiya trained the kids in chakra control, elemental chakra manipulation, fuinjutsu, kenjutsu, and taijutsu. The latter two being Naruto and Sauske's weak points with Sakura being weak in ninjutsu and having a small chakra pool.
Every morning Sakura would come over to the boy's house where the three of them plus Nikko and Kakashi would eat breakfast then leave for the training grounds, the fact that Naruto and Sauske lived with Kakashi was a good way to keep the notoriously tardy jonin on time.
When they arrived they would start out with warm-ups and light exercise and run laps, then they would work on sparring and perfecting their ninjutsu. After lunch they would be joined by Jiraiya with Tsunade or Shizune dropping in to say hi every once in a while and they would work on their elemental manipulation, Ken and Tai jutsu, and running through new strategies utilizing the team and Naruto's summons. When Naruto asked when he would get a new summons to use the Kyubi said that he needed to wait awhile and train with the ones he had.
Their training would have continued on that way for a while if the hokage after seeing they had not yet been on any missions hadn't sent for them. The four ninja plus Nikko made their way to the hokage's office taking up positions in front of his desk. Secretly the gennin had been praying for their first real mission, as long as it didn't involve that demon cat Tora that Kiba had told them about.
"Kakashi and team seven reporting as ordered sir." Said Kakashi
"The reason I called you here" started the hokage "is that in the last three months since your students graduated your team has not completed one mission, why is that?"
"I felt that my team would better learn team work through squad exercises and get stronger through the training me and Jiraiya have been doing."
"I see so would you say your students are ready to take a mission yet?" asked the hokage, though when someone of his power makes a request the only answer is yes sir.
"Yeah were ready, I want to do something cool like rescue a princess or beat up some bandits." shouted Naruto
"And you to feel the same way?" asked the hokage looking at Sakura and Sauske
"Well it would be nice to do something other than training for once." said Sakura
"And what's wrong with my training." asked Kakashi
"Uh nothing sensei." said Sakura not wanting to upset her teacher.
"Well it's good that you all feel that way because I'm assigning you your first mission. Now normally you would have to do a set number of D ranks first but I'm going to let you do a C rank as your first mission."
"Wow what is it?" asked Naruto
"You all will be escorting the bridge builder Tazuna to his home in the land of Waves, since this is a simple C rank you should not encounter rouge ninja." Said the hokage "Tazuna will be waiting at the main gate at noon, I would suggest you all pack enough for at least two weeks."
After getting their mission scroll and being released the team split up to go get their travel packs making sure to pack extra weapons, seals, and medicine. At the gate Tazuna was sitting down on the ground drinking his eighth beer of the day with his back leaning up against the wall when he was startled by the sound of people landing right beside him.
Looking at the ninja the old man complained in a half drunken slur "This is what I get a one eyed scarecrow and a bunch of tiny brats with bad taste in clothing and a pet rat."
"Whose short you drunken old geezer, I'm the right size for my age and body weight." shouted Naruto, and reminding Sakura of a character she read of in a manga once.
'I wonder if he's going to start complaining about milk next?' thought the pinket
"Now Naruto we don't need to go picking a fight with our client." Said Kakashi turning to Tazuna "This trip will go a lot quicker if we just all get along now why don't we get a move on."
After trying to get up for a minute then wobbling and falling back down on his butt Kakashi went over and helped Tazuna up on his feet.
"So Tazuna what is the land of Waves like?" asked Sakura trying to be polite with the old drunk.
"The land of waves is a small chain of islands off the coast that used to be under protection of the land of whirlpools, because of that we don't have a ninja core and most of our money comes from the fish and salt we export." said Tazuna
After walking for a couple more hours the four ninjas plus summons noticed something strange about the path, off to the side of the path there was a large puddle but it hadn't rained in a week, thinking something was up they all made sure to be on their guard but not look it, making sure to 'walk casual' like Jiraiya had taught them.
Once they had made it past the puddle two figures wearing masks and a large pair of metal claws with a chain connecting them jumped out of the pool to attack the ninja. As soon as they lept from the puddle a lot of things started happening really fast, first the two ninja dropped down beside Kakashi and wrapped him up in their chain and pulled slicing the Jonin into pieces. At the same time Sakura was moving through hand signs to call a large dome of earth and rock to surround and protect Tazuna while Naruto, Nikko, and Sauske dealt with the rouge ninja.
The two ninja got ready to leap at their next target when they felt a tug on the chain attached to their gauntlets; looking back they noticed a black katana sticking through one of the links in the chain and the black haired boy going through seals.
"Fire Release: Dragon Flames" shouted Sauske as flames shot towards the sword, once it made contact the flames grew from the sword and started to move up the chains where they touched it and make their way towards the ninjas gauntlets. Before the fire could reach them the two released the chains only for both of them to have to block an attack from the blond kid's short swords with the claws on their gauntlet. Before the two could counter against the blond and his clone, Eevee and another Eevee clone leapt into the air smashing against their chest with a iron tail attack causing the two would be assassins to be thrown back into the nearby trees and rendered unconscious.
"Good work guys." said Kakashi stepping out of the woods "How did you know I wasn't killed?"
"Because it would take someone super strong to kill a Leaf Ninja." said Naruto
'I wish that was true' thought Kakashi remembering looking up at his sensei with the same light in his eyes. Walking over to the two rouge ninja Kakashi made sure to retrieve anything that could be used as a weapon then took some rope out of his pack and tied them to a tree, looking at their headband he noticed that they were rouge rain ninja 'I guess the civil war up there must have ran them off'.
"Hey Naruto," said Sauske holding up a small yellow book "I was looking in this bingo book your grandpa gave us and it says these two are known as the Demon Brothers." Naruto could hear Kurama laughing in his head at the name the two had chosen.
"Demon brothers," laughed Naruto "What were they hoping people would be so afraid of the name they wouldn't have to fight any one?" the rouge ninja's name defiantly did not live up to the hype.
"Maybe but says here that they have a pretty good sized bounty on their heads." said Sauske
"Let me see," asked Sakura looking over his shoulder "wow 15,000ryo a piece, that's 10,000 ryo for each of us."
"Hey don't I get a cut I am your teacher after all." said Kakashi
"No all you did was hide in the bushes." said Naruto
"But the rope was mine," pouted Kakashi "besides I was watching the fight to see how you guys would do."
"Because everything in life is a test." said the three gennin repeating one of the lessons they had been taught.
"Correct my lovely little students now would you three like to know how you did?" said Kakashi and upon seeing the shaking of their head he continued. "Well to start off you three had excellent reaction time and worked well together but there were a few strategic flaws. First off Sakura when you used the earth dome to shield Tazuna you cut off any route of attract yes but also of escape and what if they had taken you out he would have been a sitting duck. Sauske nailing down their chain was a good way to keep them from moving but then you made them separate making two separate enemies out of what had been one large one."
Kakashi was getting ready to continue his lecture when they heard thumping and yelling from the inside of the earthen dome behind them.
"Sakura now would be a good time to release Tazuna before he runs out of air, I would like him to be conscious when I question him" said Kakashi. Releasing the jutsu the rock dome split in half and receded into the ground leaving a grumpy looking Tazuna facing an even grumpier looking Kakashi.
"Mr. Tazuna would you like to tell me why my team was attacked by rouge ninja on a supposedly C ranked escort mission." Asked Kakashi
"Well you all seem like really nice people and I didn't want to lie to you."
"Then don't" interrupted Kakashi
"You see Gato owner of Gato's Shipping Company has taken up shop on our islands and bought all of the boats so we can no longer fish or take our goods to shore without using one of his boats. He's slowly starving us and has his goons come and collect taxes, Me and the people of my village were only able to raise enough money for a C rank mission, but if I can complete my bridge then we won't need the boats and we will be able to make money again and can pay you."
"You should have told us that in the first place we would have still helped you." Said Naruto "But now that you lied to us I don't know if we should."
"Did I mention that I have a grandson and daughter who are relying on me completing the bridge?" Asked Tazuna hoping the starving family card would work.
"Ok fine when you put it like that well help, but when this is over were going to have to talk about a change in payment." said Kakashi
"Fine whatever just make sure I can complete the bridge and I'll pay whatever you want." said Tazuna turning around and making his way up the road.
"Ok guys this is now a B ranked mission so we need to be on our guard, I'm going to send a hawk off to inform the hokage and get someone to retrieve the two Demon Bros. over here then we can get a move on."
The group continued on their way for another couple of hours until they came upon a small boat hidden in the bushes of a side stream, inside the little motor boat was a middle age man lying between the seats asleep with a fishing line in the water.
"Kaji wake up," said Tazuna as he stepped into the boat "it's time to go"
"Uhh wait what!" said Kaji pushing up the rim of his hat to look at the group "Ohh your back, and these must be the ninja that they sent." Kaji raked his eyes across the team "Wait why did they bring along three kids and a dog where are the rest of the ninja?"
"We are the ninja" Said Naruto "and Nikko isn't a dog he's a summon animal."
"Don't worry Kaji these little guys were able to take out two assassins on the way here everything will work out."
"Sure if you say so," Said Kaji stepping into the back of the boat and turning on the tiller "ok everyone in the boat please keep all hands and legs inside the vehicle until it comes to a complete stop."
As the team got farther out to see a great fog had surround them hiding the boat from any prying eyes, looking out at the waves Naruto saw a great dark shape start to form in the mist looking closer he was finally able to get a clear look once the fog broke. "Wow that is a huge bridge" said Naruto; now that the fog had broken he noticed that the giant bridge stretched all the way from the mainland to the island only having a break in the middle where the last sections needed to be build.
"This is one of the finer parts of being a ninja" said Kakashi "over your missions you will get to travel all around and see many amazing sites, eat new foods, and meet chicks."
A couple of hours later the group was walking down a quiet path in the woods, enjoying the scenery and each other's company when Nikko suddenly shot off like a bolt into the bushes startling the team, watching the bushes rustle Naruto went to see what Nikko had caught, he came back with Nikko under one arm and a dead white rabbit in the other.
"Strange I wonder why he did that?" asked Naruto
"I don't know but there's something weird about that rabbit." said Sakura
"What do you mean?" asked Naruto
"Well during the summer rabbits have brown fur they only have white in the winter, or if they are kept inside like the ones we use at the hospital for testing, or for being released and used for the body switch technique."
Suddenly Kakashi grabbed onto his gennin pushing them and Tazuna to the ground a second before the heard a whistling sound go over their head followed by a thunk as whatever it was imbedded its self in a nearby tree. Looking up Naruto saw what it was that about gave them all a free haircut it was a large sword that looked more like a butchers knife with most of the handle broken off. And standing on top of the sword was a man wearing dark blue ninja pants and a shirt with the sleeves cut off with wraps on his head and neck covering his mouth.
Standing up and motioning for his team to get into formation around Tazuna Kakashi spoke up "Zabuza Momochi the Demon of the Hidden Mist and master of the silent killing technique, to what to we owe this honor?"